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“It is a paradise. It is a sanctuary. It is where the pained come to heal in peace and solitude.”

Paradise Touching Elysium

Book:A Touch of Darkness

Source: A Touch of Darkness

“I wrapped my fingers around the first light I saw and felt all at once so happy and so sad and so free. My hand was cold somehow as I lifted the tiny star out of the water and brought its trembling, burning form to my face. I kissed it gently and laughed like a child as my face seemed to become angelic for a few moments. The star laughed back at me in little sweet notes, and I released it back to the sea. I can still feel the star in my hands to this day. You can have your noctiluca scintillans, your petty protists in the sea. I prefer to sail among the stars.”

Stars Sailing Elysium

Book:Elysium

Source: Elysium

“I rocketed a commanding finger to the heavens and it rained stardust upon our young heads.”

Book:Elysium

Source: Elysium

“Bravery is never measured by the magnitude of the actions, but rather by the choices made.”

Bravery Elysium

Book:Elysium

Source: Elysium

“A blade can be nothing but a blade. Only the hand that picks it up knows that there was ever anything else worth holding.”

Hands Purpose Partnership Nora Sakavic Elysium Blade

Book:Elysium

Source: Elysium

“He read up on Jillian Abernathy, the acid attack, and Elysium. Then he looked up the definition of the word. ELYSIUM: ANY PLACE OR CONDITION OF IDEAL BLISS OR COMPLETE HAPPINESS, PARADISE. Good name for a spa, he thought. Then he read the second definition. IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, A PLACE ASSIGNED TO VIRTUOUS PEOPLE AFTER DEATH.”

Irony Elysium Spa Meaning Of Words

Book:The Look of Love

Source: The Look of Love

“It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.”

“Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.”

Ifs Happiness Friendship Rooms Friends Doom Felicity Elysium

Book:The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Joy, thou spark from Heav'n immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Drunk with fire, toward Heaven advancing Goddess, to thy shrine we come. Thy sweet magic brings together What stern Custom spreads afar; All men become brothers Where thy happy wing-beats are.”

Men Together Joy Heaven Fire Magic Sweet Brother Beats Daughter Wings Spread Drunk Immortal Customs Sparks Goddess Advancing Afar Shrines Elysium

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage.”

Wells Heritage Dross Elysium

Author:Ezra Pound

“The Art of Elysium is a program I've volunteered with for close to ten years, and I work with Unicef and Young Storytellers. My passion is really working with children since they are the future.”

Years Children Art Young Passion Ten Program Storyteller My Passion Unicef Elysium Working With Children

Author:Danielle Panabaker

“'District 9' was a singular anti-Apartheid metaphor, and 'Elysium' is a more general metaphor about immigration and how the First World and Third World meet. But the thing that I like the most about the metaphor is that it can be scaled to suit almost any scenario.”

World Firsts Thirds Metaphor Immigration Suits Scenarios Third World Apartheid Elysium District 9

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Character Born Comedy Concepts Ridiculous Setting Settings Visuals Unusual Robots Imagery Elysium District 9

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“I think that 'Elysium' the movie is unrealistic, with the space station and everything. I think 'Elysium' the metaphor is completely realistic: it's exactly where we're going.”

Thinking Space Metaphor Stations Realistic Elysium

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.”

World Firsts Made Ideas Wealth Interesting Fiction Thirds Science Fiction Metaphor Separation Mess Really Interesting Third World Discrepancies Interesting Ideas Elysium Johannesburg

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”

Heart Dream Reality Lying Desire Lost Stars Imagination Sea Land Eternal Shining Evening Shore Pilots Unseen Passing Away Atlantis Forlorn Elysium

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage”

Wells Remains Thee Heritage Dross Elysium

Author:Ezra Pound

“What thou lovest well remains.”

Wells Remains Dross Elysium

Author:Ezra Pound

“Artemis smiled. "You have done well, my lieutenant. You have made me proud, and all those Hunters who perished in my service will never be forgotten. They will achieve Elysium, I am sure." She glared pointedly at Hades. He shrugged. "Probably." Artemis glared at him some more. Okay," Hades grumbled. "I'll streamline their application process.”

Wells Made Done Process Achieve Proud Okay Forgotten Application Hunters Hades Artemis Lieutenants Thalia Grace Elysium

Book:Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

Source: Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian

“But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.”

Eye Beauty Vision Sun Seeing Constant Absence Enjoyed Awe Shade Virginia Vertical Elysium

Book:Jefferson: Writings

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.”

Men Might Kings Fit Garden Mere Impression Odd Formal Elysium

Author:Ezra Pound

“Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?”

Soul Known Gone Fields Mines Poet Fine Drink Wine Host Mermaid Taverns Caverns Canaries French Wine Elysium

Author:John Keats

“Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with its annals, possesses its realms of dim and shadowy fields, in which troops of fancies already walk like disembodied ghosts in the old fields of Elysium, and which bid fair to be quite dark and uncertain enough for all the purposes of poesy for centuries to come.”

Source: Popular Geology: A Series of Lectures Read Before the Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, with Descriptive Sketches from a Geologist's Portfolio

“The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs; The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration-all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores; At the fifth cup I am purified; The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup-ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.”

Feels Firsts Break Loneliness Sweet Wind Thousand Thirds Let Me Breaths Raises Lips Cups Tea Odd Realms Call Me Throat Fourth Volume Breeze Fifth Sleeves Barren Perspiration Elysium Sweet Tea

Author:Lu Tong

“Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.”

Soul Singing Prison Lap Elysium

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors

“There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.”

Kind Artist Certain Levels Effort Fool Achievement Criticism Myth Wounds Retiring Optimist Famous Artist Elysium

Author:Mark Matousek

“When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.”

Age Law London Golden Chinese Cycles Thieves Bike Bicycle Lanes Cycling Golden Age Racks Cameron Sharia Cyclists Elysium Sharia Law Ubiquity

Author:Boris Johnson

“What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.”

World Firsts Wells Hell Mines Remains Thee Halls Heritage Dross Elysium

Author:Ezra Pound